Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 9

              29 groups entertain to play columbia in 32 city ministers hear beardslee the price of muhlenberg foot ball game tickets has been re duced according to an announce ment last night by j g petri kin graduate manager of athlet ics reserved seats have been re duced to 1.50 and general ad mission tickets will be 1 any undergraduate taking guests may obtain a reserved seat coupon for himself for 50c by applying at the athletic of fice friday 4:00 p m houseparty officially opens 10:00 p m 3:00 a m senior ball saturday 2:30 p m lehigh-muhlenberg football game 7:00 p m - midnight house dances or supper dances sunday 3:00 p m ( houseparty officially closes university policy of reli gious training outlined yesterday okeson pictures football's story traces games develop ment from middle ages to present union sponsors dormitory dance non-fraternity men will entertain at masonic temple eastern intercollegiate football is run from an office in the alumni building of this university it is a lehigh man who designates all of ficials who officiate at football games from maine to the mississip pi the man referred to is walter r okeson 96 and his official title is commissioner for the selection of eastern football officials mike thompson writing in the saturday evening post of october 24 pays tribute to commissioner okeson when he says mr oke . . . has functioned excellently accomplishing the difficult balance of satisfying both the colleges and the officials he has freed the coaches and graduate managers of a troublesome responsibility he has played no favorites among officials and has protected our interests where we once had no protection organized about 1924 the eastern association of foot ball officials was organized about 1924 and mr okeson has been at the helm since its inception he has a list of 12,000 available officials and every february assigns four men from this list to every sports writer and official lauds walter okeson czar of football college football game scheduled throughout the season both col leges and officials have the right to refuse the assignments but prac tically unanimous support has been the rule in the seven years the plan has been in force was alumni secretary mr okeson who is now treasurer of the university was formerly alumni secretary it was then that he conceived the idea for the alum ni memorial building in which edi fice he now occupies an office he has not always been the czar of football once he was a compara tively low line-man having played right end for the brown and white during his undergraduate days once too he was volunteer coach of football at lehigh okeson has received many trib utes from prominent football and educational luminaries perhaps the one he values most is the tribute tendered him last year at a testi monial dinner given him in new york when ed thorpe world renowned sport writer said of him okeson has stood behind football as no other man in the country has ever stood german society names officers plans complete for senior prom deutscher verein will in itiate 1 4 ; plans goethe centenial favors to be silver brace lets with university seal a new eligibility rule will go info effect this semester concerning all participants in sports at lehigh the new ruling which was passed by the board of control last year will be given its first trial when valentines come out next month a statement from the board is as follows the board of control of athlet ics wishes to call to the attention of the student body the new eligibility rule which was adopted last year and which is effective for the first time this semester the rule pro vides that any student receiving valentines in nine hours or more will be ineligible for the remainder of the semester to participate in any sport whose first scheduled match comes after mid-semester this rule although it was ap proved by the faculty was not ini tiated by that body it was devised and passed by the board and is not a faculty scholastic eligibility rule but an athletic board rule it was passed not to restrict athletic op portunity but to increase it it is hoped that by its operation fewer athletes will be lost by flunk-out scholarship will be improved and better teams will result this notice is presented at this time to recall to the student body that the rule goes into effect with the valentines of this mid-semes ter so that application will not come as a surprise the rule is on trial it will operate with better re sults if both students and faculty members are familiar with it new art exhibit will open nov 1 a dance for dormitory and town men will be held saturday night oct 31 in the masonic temple in bethlehem the lehigh union will subsidize the dance and according to a r baldwin president of the union the dance will be carried on in the same manner it was last year the dance will be an invitation dance invitations have been sent to all non-fraternity men during the past week an invitation will be sent to each fraternity house too so that fraternity men will be able to join in with town and dormitory men after they leave their own dances the chaperones will be dr and mrs c g beardslee prof and mrs c d jensen and prof and mrs h g payrow the music will be furnished by jay knell and his orchestra of pottsville the committee in charge of the dance consists of john brown chairman william schuck carl robson rudolf imhof david mac adam and donald may abnormal students given physical exams final arrangements for the sen ior ball on friday evening have been completed by the senior prom committee dancing will be from 10 p m to 3 a m in taylor gymna sium the decorations will follow the autumn note with yellow and brown predominating smith bal lew and his columbia recording or chestra will furnish the music the favors will be silver mesh bracelets with • the university seal mounted on them three hundred of these favors have been ordered by the committee the chaperones for the prom will be dean and mrs c m mcconn dr and mrs neil carothers and prof and mrs bradley stoughton watson current chairman of senior prom committee believes that the orchestra selected is one of the best available and one that is well known for its high class music and vocal chorus professor ford to give address deutscher verein german so ciety elected officers and chose pro grams for the year at a meeting october 22 in coppee hall offi cers elected are j l boughner 33 president j j magyor 32 vice president cecil sobo 32 sec retary-treasurer it was decided to hold the meetings every second thursday of the month at the butz town inn a dinner preceding each meeting the program for the year in cludes a goethe centennial a one act play and a christmas meeting at prof p m palmer's house out side speakers will also be selected fourteen new members elected at the meeting last thursday will be initiated at the next meeting pro fessor palmer will speak at the next meeting on the trip he made to germany this summer to become eligible for election to deutscher verein a student must make good marks in at least two years of german german born stu dents are also selected for member ship walter r okeson secretary treasurer of lehigh university spoke to more than 100 members and guests of the rotary club at a luncheon meeting wednesday in york pa his subject was the de velopment of football in america mr okeson who is head of the eastern association of football of ficials began his address by tell ing of the game called football that was played in the middle ages in england in this game the male population of one town was match ed against the male population of another the field at that time con sisted of the mileage between the two cities the game was frowned upon by the church and the state the american game developed from that played by the famous english public schools rugby in 1826 the first run with the ball was made previous to that time the ball was kicked no credit was given for touchdowns as we know them today only kicked goals counted in the scoring in 1876 the first concerted at tempt to organize football in the american universities was begun a conference was held at spring field mass when the union rugbj rules were adopted th development of the game continued rapidly and in the early eighties interference for players was instituted to george woodward former president of the yale alum ni association belongs the credit for revising the game upon which modern football rests according to mr okeson mr okeson who served as an of ficial for a number of years is men tioned in a series of articles now running in the saturday evening post by mike thompson called that's my story lehigh students win legion circus prizes edgar a collins arts 32 was the winner of the chevrolet auto mobile offered by the harry f w johnson post no 379 of the am erican legion as the grand prize saturday evening at its charity cir cus held in the manhattan auditor ium earlier in the week maurice h munzer arts 33 won an electric washing machine the main prize of the evening sigma xi will hear talk on evolution of learning friday latin society holds initiation for seven the university policy of instruc tion in moral and religious philoso phy was outlined yesterday to the bethlehem ministerial association by dr claude g beardslee profes sor of moral and religious philoso phy professor beardslee's invitation to speak before the society is be lieved to have resulted from his statement that no religion was to be favored at lehigh that even athe ism would be taught to those inter ested . his statement as reiterated to the association yesterday was if the student considers himself an atheist and wishes to study philoso phy of that sort he will be ac quainted with essential arguments for and against atheism although some individual criti cism was made the association ex pressed no opinion as a body ac cording to the rev c a meiliche chairman of the committee of pub licity there was no time for a vote yesterday and that any further ac tion will be taken at a later date frank discussion held neither professor beardslee nor the officers of the association would definitely state the attitude of the meeting however the official press statement of the association as re leased by the rev w i welden mentioned that afterward there was a free and frank discussion professor beardslee said in part lehigh university requires every undergraduate as a prerequisite to graduation to receive instruction in moral and religious philosophy the reason for the requirement is found in the increasingly acute clashes between conflicting ethical and reli gious ideas and in the resultant de mands upon educated men for spir itual as well as technical leader ship it is the purpose of such instruc tion to acquaint the student with what may impartially be considered the best thought in this field in or der that they may be enabled criti cally to construct clarify and en rich a philosophy of life of their own there is no attempt to force a religious mood upon the student university directory out early week delayed letter gave princeton eighth prexy landscapes of katherine mor ris wright will be shown for two weeks a new art exhibit showing the oil paintings and watercolors of katherine morris wright will open in the university library on nov 1 miss wright is one of the young er american painters rather con servative in style but very original in idea and design according to prof garth howland of the depart ment of fine arts her paintings to talling 24 will be mostly landscapes with some miscellaneous subjects harrison morris the father of the painter was managing director of the academy of fine arts of philadelphia for 20 years and brought up his daughter in an at mosphere of fine painters and writ ers her husband sydney wright is a professor of fine arts at the university of pennsylvania professor howland said that the exhibit will continue till nov 15 palmer gives talk prof p m palmer head of the german department and director of the college of arts and sciences spoke friday at the meeting of the lehigh university chapter amer ican society of university profes sors on insurance and pensions prof c h sutherland director of the curriculum in civil engineering was elected head of the local chap ter emery wright and crum speak to eta sigma phi eta sigma phi honorary classi cal fraternity initiated seven men last friday oct 23 1931 at the butztown inn the men initiated are t w burke 34 w b bohn ing 34 lewis feit 34 ernest rit ter 34 monroe lewis 33 sam uel solomon 32 and w straw bridge 34 after the initiation ceremony prof e l crum gave a speech in latin speeches by vice president emery and dr horace w wright followed after the banquet short plays given in latin concluded the evening tests for . defective vision given at infirmary special physical examinations will continue to be given during the week to all students who have de fective vision and slight abnormal ties according to dr r c bull head of the students health service examinations will be held every monday wednesday and friday evening from 7:30 until 10 p m all the students who showed any abnormalties in this year's physical examinations were divided into groups depending upon the serious ness of the case the first group included students with defective hearts group two was • comprised of students with bad lungs men examined for advanced r o t c comprised the third group the last group includes students with slight abnormalties such as defective vi sion yesterday marked tfie third week for the night examinations and dr bull expressed the belief that they would probably have to continue the re-examinations for at least three or four weeks delta omicron theta will choose officers prof adelbert ford will address the sigma xi honorary research fraternity on the subject the evo lution of learning at 8 p m fri day oct 30 in room 466 of pack ard laboratory professor ford head of the psy chology department was graduated from the university of michigan with an a b degree in 1920 he received his masters degree three years later while in 1926 he was given a ph d degree by the same university from 1926 until he came to le high in 1931 he served as instruc tor and professor of psychology at the university of michigan he is the author of a number of articles and books his most recent entitled a scientific approach to labor problems has just been released by the mcgraw-hill company tau beta pi to meet tau beta pi national honorary fraternity for engineering students will hold a meeting to elect new members at 4 p m wednesday in the packard laboratory john angle president of the society stated that about 12 men will be elected coming events wednesday oct 28 4 p m tau beta pi meeting 165 packard laboratory thursday oct 29 7:30 p m scabbard and blade smoker 201 packard laboratory friday oct 30 7:30 p m sigma xi meeting 466 packard laboratory professor adelbert ford head of the de partment of psychology will be the speaker nov 1 to nov is an exhibition of oils and water col ors by catherine morris wright lehigh art gallery university li brary open from 3 to 6 p m week days and from 2 to 6 p m on sundays lack of prophetic vision has caus ed the scheduling of some of le high's harder football opponents walter e okeson treasurer of the university and commissioner for the selection of eastern football offi cials disclosed recently this was revealed when he and j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics were asked to explain the university's policy on scheduling football games despite the mediocre success of this year's team lehigh has already announced the addition of columbia in 1932 and harvard in 1933 no further information as to our opponents will be given at present by the board of control of ath letics although the schedule for 1932 is believed complete and that of 1933 almost so we feel that is is better for the other colleges to announce the games mr petrikin explained mr okeson further clarified his explanation of some of the games on lehigh's schedule take columbia for instance he said when we first started ne gotiations with them last year they were not really out of our class they had been defeated and no one expected them to be strong enough to defeat dartmouth 19-6 as they did this season brown too was an exception at the time of the inception of the gates plan last year athletics at the university of pennsylvania were in a ferment with no one in real authority uncertain as to whether we could arrange a game with them for this season we were forced to schedule brown to insure a good team for that section of the schedule finally perm also arrang ed a game and were were left with two hard games in succession mr okeson further admitted that lehigh scheduled more big-college teams than almost any other school of its football caliber in this sector j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics stated that it is my personal opinion that the members of the football squad would rather lose a creditable game to one of the bigger colleges than defeat a small college whose reputation means nothing to lehigh students or to the public in general although we are certain that the alumni approve our present ratio of hard and easy games we realize that student opinion is the most important factor in the selection of our opponents this from mr pet rikin he also pointed out that even by scheduling easier teams lehigh could not be assured of winning i cannot think of any college which has at least one-third of le high's enrollment of which we can be absolutely sure of beating mr okeson also subscribed to this statement explaining that the general average of college football was higher in pennsylvania than in any other state in the country lehigh's graduate manager also pointed out that the financial end must be considered if our gate re ceipts dropped very much he stat ed it might be necessary to drop some of the sports for which foot ball is largely paying newtonian society has four speakers professor stocker is club's new faculty advisor the newtonian mathematical so ciety held its first meeting of the semester last night at 7:30 o'clock in room 208 packard laboratory four short talks were given by john hancock richard lindabury da vid wright and professor stocker john hancock spoke on the life of isaac newton after whom the society is named robert linda bury the president of the club spoke on the work and accomplish ments of newton in the line of as tronomy david wright gave a short talk on newton's mathemati cal works the last speaker was professor stocker newly appointed faculty advisor of the club who talked briefly on the work of the society and outlined plans for the forthcoming year a new date for future meetings was agreed upon the society will j meet once a month from now on instead of once every two weeks as : the previous arrangement called for | the meetings will take place on i the third wednesday of the month five societies have neglected to send in information the lehigh directory of faculty and students will be finished and ready for delivery by the beginning of next week according to paul e schwartz in charge of the publica tion mr schwartz states that if the names of the officers of the follow ing societies are not handed to him before friday they will not appear in the directory the societies are the phi club the radio club deutscher verein delta omicron theta and the new tonian society mr schwartz furth er stated that any student who has changed his address should notify the registrar's office of the change before friday peace lectures are open to lehigh men debating society will elect new president and secretary two new officers will be chosen by delta omicron theta honorary debating society 4 p m thursday in room 303 christmas-saucon hall the new men will replace manuel ruderman and matthew murphy neither of whom have returned to school in addition to the election plans for the coming season will be dis cussed 100 received from the al umni association has given the group new stimulus a coach has not yet been secured edward fleischer vice president will preside other officers of the society are barclay wyckoff treas urer and maurice bernstein assis tant manager of debate news staff will meet the news staff of the brown and white will meet at 4 p m wednes day in the brown and white room the staff of both issues will be present for a reassignment of re porters to beats and an explanation of the new style type to be used in future issues all headlines of the brown and white will be changed in accord ance with this plan next issue three noted speakers at allentown high school the faculty and students of le high university are cordially invit ed to attend lectures on how may another war be averted at the allentown high school tomorrow at 8 p m mr s.e buchman secre tary of the allentown committee of the national council for the pre vention of war told dean mcconn in a letter yesterday rabbi edward l israel dr susan kingsbury and dr robert russel wicks noted authorities on economics will lec ture on various phases of this prob lem rabbi israel of baltimore is said to be a particularly popular lecturer in new york dr wicks is dean of university chapel at princeton university dr kingsbury head of the department of economics at bryn mawr college is believed by some to be the largest women plat form speaker in the east the delay of an important let ter in a small connecticut post of fice gave princeton university a distinguished graduate who later became its president according to family napers recently discovered the graduate and recipient of the letter was the rev ashbel green eighth president of princeton the documents revealed that the late president green wrote to a friend in new haven conn for in formation about yale he waited patiently for the reply and after several weeks abandoned hope meanwhile a friend of the family proposed princeton which was ap parently pleasing and young green matriculated at nassau hall two weeks after he had left home the letter from new haven arrived it had been lying in a country post office for three weeks after becoming the president of princeton reverend green referred to the peculiar manner in which he had chosen his college in a letter to his son he explained it thus had i received the letter sea sonably i certainly would have chosen yale all of which goes to prove my pomt — that my entire life has taken its complexion and its course from the university which i attended and later became so inti mate with god often assigns our allotment in this world not only without our contrivance but even in opposition to it and the disappoint ment of our fondest hopes prof john dewey of columbia university who delivered the com mencement address here last june and is author of numerous books on ethics and social problems believes tat for the first time in history there is a promise that universal education will become a fact and not a dream on paper dr dewey told this to listeners of weaf sunday evening in his address second of the men of america series the columbia professor is a recognized education al authority believing education to be the basis of civilization dr dewey said unless education undergoes great transformations and prepares citizens to deal effectively with pre sent-day and anticipated problems our civilization may collapse schools he said must meet new forces which may wreck us unless they are intelligently regulated and employed cites growth of schools the philosopher after citing the phenomenal growth in schools and school registration in the past gen eration warned great as have been the changes in our educational sys tem in the past 100 years and es pecially in the past 30 s they are nevertheless slight in comparison universal education no longer dream says columbia professor with those which must be undertak en in the next generation how dr dewey asked can education stand still when society itself is rapidly changing under our very eyes the sense of unsolved social problems is all about us criticizes schools criticizing the schools as back ward and devoid of initiative dr dewey said " they have fought shy of adopting into their aims and methods enough of the new forces the forces which determine our life to fit individuals to cope with them mechanical things have sur passed the human mind in develop ment during the past generation ac cording to the columbia professor he said our mechanical devices and processes have gotten far ahead of our capacity to plan and to en joy — ahead of our minds in short although asserting that educa tors must wake up to the trend of present civilization and take cog nizance of the deplorable state of backwardness which characterizes our present system professor dew ey held out some hope and gave some encouragement to the few schools attempting to rouse them selves from the rut of classicism but added as yet the schools have accomplished nothing only three combined satur day evening functions planned lehigh's eleventh fall houseparty will bring nearly 650 guests to brighten the campus during the last week-end of october young la dies from all over the country will come as guests of 29 living groups hiring every orchestra within striking distance most of the fra ternities will hold individual house parties saturday oct 31 there be ing but three combined functions planned kappa alpha and sigma chi will hold a combined affair at tracting 85 couples at the sigma chi house the orchestra has not been yet decided upon prof and mrs m c stewart and prof w f payne will be the chaperones dorms book jay knell price hall and the different sec tions of taylor hall will dance to the music of jay knell of potts ville at the masonic temple mr and mrs c d jensen mr and mrs h g payrow and dr and mrs c g beardslee will chap erons the affair leonard hall will engage eddie mueller's orchestra from philadelphia dr and mrs e l crum will be the chaperones at least 175 couples are expected to attend these two dances delta upsilon and sigma nu ex pect to entertain 75 girls to the strains of al rose and his colum bians at the delta upsilon house the chaperones will be capt and mrs j o green and mr and mrs j n marshall the eastern sirens will provide the music for 40 cou ples at a combined dance given by the phi delta theta and the phi gamma delta fraternities mrs raymond drake mr and mrs h hartzog and mr and mrs a p wilson will chaperone the party tom hogan to play alpha kappa pi's 14 guests will hear tom hogan's bethlehem or chestra the chaperones will be mr and mrs j i rowe and mr and mrs r mcclairon dr and mrs t lafferty will chaperone 30 cou ples at alpha tau omega the east ern sirens providing the music the chi psi lodge's 20 guests will be entertained by the arcadians of somerville under the chaperonage of mrs c h aufhammer at the chi phi fraternity the orchestra has not yet been engaged but 14 couples will be present together with mr and mrs a t hagstoz and mr e h saxton the chap erones riker's orchestra will furnish the music for the devotees of terpsi chore at the delta tau delta frater nity the 25 couples will be chap eroned by mr and mrs w e bul ler alpha chi rho and its 35 guests will hear the bell trouba dors mr and mrs l kingham and mr stuart mead being the chaper ones walter daney and his orchestra will supply the music for 10 young ladies visiting omega phi sigma mr wilbur e harvey and miss elizabeth glasor will chaperone phi beta delta will take 40 gir|s to a dinner dance at the traylor ho tel in allentown the virgilians will furnish the music and prof and mrs e s sinkinson and mr and mrs l e jaston will be chap erones pi kappa alpha will have the troubadors for their 15 guests entertainment mrs c w pimper and mrs r shankweiler will chap erone the terrace gardens orchestra will provide amusement for 16 couples and the chaperones mr and mrs h homer mr f a scott and miss irene macgregor at the phi sigma kappa house psi upsilon fraternity has engaged the great white fleet orchestra for the 30 young women they will enter tain over the week-end mr and mrs f j wilson and mr and mrs l h pease will be the chaperones sigma phi will have the nomads of easton to provide dancing for 15 couples theta delta chi in keeping with an old african custom will have its usual band of coatesville coons there will probably be 20 couples in attendance while the chaperones will be mr and mrs l e fara bough sigma phi epsilon has hir ed booker's student prince to pro vide their 20 couples with dancing facilities mr and mrs f j scott and mrs i s heller will be the chaperones doc duhig's ambassadors will entertain at the theta kappa phi house there will probably be more than 17 couples in attendance mr and mrs g a patten will chaper continued on page four bethlehem pa tuesday october 27 1931 union to continue old clothes drive brown and white fall house party details complete vol xxxix no 9 price of football tickets reduced price — five cents early schedule causes lehigh's hard grid games new eligibility rule effective this semester lack of prophetic vision is reason given by officials nine hours of valentines is limit allowed to athletes events calendar for houseparty approximately 650 guests will attend eleventh autumn affair another old clothes drive will be made by the lehigh union at thanksgiving but inasmuch as there is such a great demand for clothes they will be accept ed at drown hall any time all old clothes collected from students in the last drive were taken to fred trafford super intendent of police who distrib uted them among the poor approved by faculty member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news first